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Throwdown Lowdown – Blues @ Red Wings 01-23-12
In a game I felt the St. Louis Blues HAD to win to keep their reputation as a league-wide menace, the team held their end of the deal by downing the Buffalo Sabres 4-2, despite an extremely sluggish first period and a few late calls that left a lot to the imagination. While the two...
Call Up Option, Fairchild VS Syvret
With Brendan Shanahan and the NHL disciplinary committee suspending St. Louis Blues defenseman Ian Cole for three games after his hit on Detroit Red Wings forward, Justin Abdelkader, the Blues are now short a defender for the next three games. Fellow blueliners Kris Russell (groin) and Kent Huskins (ankle) are still on IR which brings...
Blues News: NHL Suspends Cole for 3 Games (Warning: Rant Inside)
The NHL Wheel of Justice continues to spin even with a new DJ behind the table. The league announced Sunday that Blues defensemen Ian Cole will be suspended for 3 games for his hit on Detroit’s Justin Abdelkader. From NHL.com: Under the terms of the Collective Bargaining Agreement, and based on his average annual salary,...
Bluenotes: Per reports Cole to have hearing with NHL for hit on Abdelkader
Well, I think we all knew this was coming… #Blues D-man Ian Cole has a hearing today with the #NHL for his hit on Detroit winger Justin Abdelkader #Redwings — Andy Strickland (@andystrickland) January 1, 2012 For those who missed the game last night, at the 9:11 mark of the first period Blues defenseman Ian...
Throwdown Lowdown – Blues @ Red Wings, 12-31-11
Have I ever mentioned how much I despise the National Hockey League’s inclusion of a shootout to the end of hockey games that are tied after 65 minutes? Well, if I haven’t, just rest assured that I absolutely despise the practice. And it’s not just because the St. Louis Blues are horrible at it, which...
Throwdown Lowdown – Blues @ Red Wings, 12-27-11
Obviously this 2011-2012 St. Louis Blues team did not want to keep remembering the ass-kickings they took at the hands of the Dallas Stars last season and early in this one, earning a hard-fought 5-3 victory over their former division-mate and soon-to-be conference-mate. There was a fight in this game, and as I was suspecting,...
Throwdown Lowdown – Red Wings @ Blues 12-06-11
What started out as awesome ended up being . . . not so much. David Perron scored a goal in his long-awaited return to the St. Louis Blues, but the Chicago Blackhawks carried the day with an impressive 5-2 win over the Blues. It was testy throughout, and there were several times that I was...
Throwdown Lowdown – Red Wings @ Blues 11-15-11
1-3-1 Trap Scheme, eh? I don’t think it worked very well for the Tampa Bay Lightning on Saturday, as they left the DrinkScotch with a 3-0 shutout loss handed to them by the opportunistic St. Louis Blues. It’s a shame that a team with as many skilled players as the Lightning have to resort to...
Throwdown Lowdown – Blues @ Red Wings 03-30-11
This time, instead of nearly altogether ignoring a Blues game (like I did on Saturday, but I swear it wasn’t my fault!), this time I actually was in attendance for a solid match with the Minnesota Wild. So yeah, the Wild DID win 3-2 in a game that ended with my least favorite hockey ending...
Throwdown Lowdown – Red Wings @ Blues, 03-12-11
What a performance by the Blues on Thursday in defeating Jaroslav Halak and Matt D’Agostini’s old teammates, the Montreal Canadiens, 4-1. D’Ags even got a goal! And there was a fight! It was a draw contested between Paul Mara and Ryan Reaves (video here) in a fight that I thought Mara actually had a slight...